Obama nominates Wal-Mart's Burwell as budget chief

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has tapped Wal-Mart's Sylvia Mathews Burwell as his next budget chief, thrusting her into the center of Washington's heated partisan budget battles and is filling vacancies at the Energy Department and Environmental Protection Agency, an official says.

By: Julie Pace, AP White House Correspondent, The Jamestown Sun